Just a quick note to let you know (if you haven’t already heard the cheering in the streets) that Steve Jackson Games (SJG) finished its OGRE Kickstarter project with $923,680 raised in backer funding. Yes, that’s right — almost (pinky to corner of mouth) one million dollars raised for a game that sold well over 30 years ago for $5 and came in a small plastic baggie

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Congratulations to Steve Jackson Games!

Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m.

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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 12

Image courtesy Camouflaj At 7:58 a.m. Pacific Friday morning, a game called République (pronounced “Republic”) finally reached its $500,000 funding goal on Kickstarter with only six hours to go after one of the most tumultuous month-long campaigns in Kickstarter history. At the beginning, République looked like a sure thing.

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Timeline: How République Squeaked Out a Kickstarter Success

Original image: Irrational Games It’s a bad news bonanza on this week’s Game|Life! Yes, we here at the Game|Life podcast advise you to listen to this episode while sitting down drinking a nice relaxing cup of chamomile tea and having a good cry. Let it all out. BioShock Infinite has been delayed.

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Game|Life Podcast: Baby, We’re Just Bad News

The Aqua Blue 3DS, one of two colors available at launch, will be discontinued. Screengrab: Wired Nintendo’s Japanese branch will discontinue the Aqua Blue 3DS, one of the two colors available since the system launched in 2011, according to its website.

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Nintendo of Japan Kills Aqua Blue 3DS, Free Television Service

Cover to Fury's Big Week, issue #2 If you’ve already seen The Avengers multiple times and still want more, Marvel Comics has a solution.

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Need More Avengers? Try These Marvel Comics

A Celt relaxes between battles at Knight Realms, one of the LARPs featured in the new book Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing Games by Lizzie Stark (Photo credit: Kyle Ober; photo courtesy of James C. Kimball) So you want to be Harry Potter, or Aragorn, or Frodo, or Kirk or Picard, or a barbarian. Or some mash-up — say, a steampunked brigand Robin Hood character who pilots a dirigible while stealing from the rich and giving the poor

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New Book Investigates the Wide, Wonderful World of LARP

It rained during the early part of the week here in Atlanta. My five-year-old, Decker, is quite used to riding his bike outside after school or kicking the soccer ball around the yard. I was worried that he’d be a bit antsy having to stay indoors, especially given that he might not be earning as many points with his GeoPalz device

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Geek Fitness Week: Get Kids Jumping on the iBounce

Photo: Eric Blackmon Photography I heard his voice as Trooper 4 while playing Halo: Reach .

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Zachary Levi Talks STEM Skills, Digital Literacies and Human-Centric Tech

It’s been widely reported that we’ve fallen far behind in STEM education, that our children just aren’t proficient at math, science, technology,or engineering.

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Girls Impress FIRST Championship With Project That Could Save Lives